Sean Callagy
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4,277 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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Um, and which for the first year, um, I, I took seriously and, you know,
realized I had to sort of earn my stripes.
My board of directors was a bunch of 70- and 80-year-old turnaround guys, bankruptcy guys.
And then...
But I remember every board meeting, I would braze the studio.
And the second time I almost got fired when I was told, don't ever talk about a movie studio again at a board meeting or you're never gonna be invited again, unless we have zero risk and all the upside.
which doesn't normally happen in business, right?
So that was, and then I scurried for a year or two.
Luckily, there was a bond bubble in 2004, and so I got a deal for 525 million of debt financing, so we kept all the equity.
That's unbelievable.
Without great terms that I and the board can say no to.
No non-recourse, no collateral to speak of.
So we love movies, we love the power of story, but what you're hearing from David right now is how critically important it is to understand money and value.
Yeah.
And the innovative...
mastery of all the different ways to share and look at value and if we're uncomfortable at these diverse areas of mastery we're not going to achieve the things which is as a footnote for everybody if that's not your mastery you're not david you're not not only harvard mba harvard and harvard didn't make david
Harvard, I'm sure, taught David some things, but this is a man who developed the muscle, the skill of discerning value, being creative, which you're going to ask some questions about how and why, but while it's not David yet in your pocket, Athena, everybody out here,
you can certainly masterfully up-level where you are to begin to think of like, hey, if I was David Maisel and I'm looking at this thing through the prism of Marvel, what are 10 different ways I could assess this ecosystem merger to create unique shares of value if these people don't want to write a check and I really want this to happen?
Or if they should write a check and they're not seeing it, how can we communicate about it?
Use the tools that way.
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